Breakout Session 3: Coping with Labor Scarcity in the New World From Servitude to Slavery and “Free” Labor Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department.

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Breakout Session 3: Coping with Labor Scarcity in the New World From Servitude to Slavery and “Free” Labor Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department

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2 Some Numbers Free migrants (~ ) –About ½ million total emigrated to British American colonies –Of those, more than 350,000 via indenture Slaves (~ ) –About 12 million left Africa, about 10 million arrived in Americas –By 1808 (end of trans-Atlantic trade to US), only 6% of African slaves landing in New World had come to North America Population as of 1790 –2.8 million free whites –58,000 free non-whites –682,000 slaves